CVE-2025-9497 (GCVE-0-2025-9497)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-28 10:58 – Updated: 2026-04-01 13:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Hardcoded Upgrade Decryption Passwords
Summary
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in Microchip Time Provider 4100 allows Malicious Manual Software Update.This issue affects Time Provider 4100: before 2.5.0.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-01 13:54 UTC
CWE
- CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.microchip.com/en-us/solutions/technol… | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.gruppotim.it/en/footer/TIM-red-team.html | technical-description |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microchip | Time Provider 4100 |
Affected:
0 , < 2.5.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2026-03-28 07:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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